Stephanians @CafeSSC

With fellow @CafeSSC - Tamo Malemnganba Chenglei, IAS, Secretary to Govt. of Manipur, & my classmate Jethin, Senior Divisional Commissioner (RPF) in Ministry of Railways, Govt. of India - discussing about Physics, @StStephensClg, LSE & University of Chicago in Imphal today.

We celebrate any person of Indian origin who does anything in any part of the world. But have very little space in media when retired Judge S Muralidhar headed United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory releases such an important report. It is not about Justice Muralidhar, but about the fact that we care very little about things that really matter. youtube.com/watch?v=hhOPFh…

Lovely piece by @mukulkesavan . @CafeSSC

Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan

a week ago

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The spreading rot of #Pseudoscience at the #IlTs will encourage top-tier Indian talent to move to universities abroad, says Vasudevan Mukunth.

Twenty-five years ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made a bold move that most universities would never dare. Instead of locking its world-class course materials behind campus walls, MIT decided to put nearly its entire curriculum online, completely free for anyone with an internet connection. That decision gave birth to MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW). What began as a bold experiment in 2001 has become one of the most significant educational initiatives in history. Today, OCW provides materials from more than 2,500 undergraduate and graduate courses across virtually every discipline: physics, engineering, artificial intelligence, economics, biology, mathematics, computer science, and many more. Anyone can access lecture notes, problem sets, exams, syllabi, and a growing library of video lectures, with no tuition, no application, and no account required. According to MIT, more than 500 million people worldwide have used these resources over the past 25 years. The impact has been profound. Students use it to ace exams, explore new fields, and launch careers. Educators around the globe integrate the materials into their own teaching. Many learners credit OCW with helping them pass professional certifications and unlock new opportunities. Beyond its direct benefits, OpenCourseWare helped spark the global open education movement, inspiring dozens of other universities to share their knowledge freely online. Even more impressive: the project was originally planned as a 10-year initiative. A quarter-century later, it's still expanding. MIT now aims to reach 1 billion learners in the coming decade, while enhancing the experience with powerful new AI-powered learning tools.

This House Believes that Government Must Protect Young Citizens from Bronze-Age Nudity. For the Motion: NCERT

Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__

3 weeks ago

🚨SCOOP🚨 Remember the 'Dancing Girl' from your history textbooks? Arms akimbo, bangles & necklace, she is the defining face of Indus Valley Civilisation. But kids opening textbooks today will see a diff image. NCERT's new Class 9 Arts textbook shades over her nude torso,

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Deeply saddened by the passing of my fellow Stephanian #JaspalRana.His warmth and spirit will be missed. My heartfelt condolences to his family and relatives. Sadgati, Om Shanti Shanti Shanti🙏 @CafeSSC

Terrible news. Jaspal Rana was a champion shooter himself and an alumnus of @CafeSSC Om Shanti.

ANI @ANI

3 weeks ago

Jaspal Rana, shooter and coach of Double Olympics medalist Manu Bhaker, passed away at Max Saket Hospital this morning: Max Hospital (file pic)

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Stephanian on Stephanian praise (we’ve seen Stephanian on Stephanian violence before): @ShashiTharoor praises @amitabhk87’s work on “Incredible India” the tourism campaign (also, “Kerala, God’s Own Country”).

Newsclick shut down, journalists lost their jobs - young reporters were called suspects. There should be an enquiry against the delhi police and ED officers in charge and should be made to pay damages

Manisha Pande @MnshaP

3 years ago

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and HR Head Amit Chakravarty have been arrested. Delhi Police statement doing the rounds says a total of “39 male suspects and 9 female suspects” were questioned. As we had reported earlier, these “suspects” include young reporters and

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A teenager in the United States started publishing software at 14 in 1998, built the entire online infrastructure for the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, joined Google as a software engineer, quit in 2018, and then spent five years writing a C library that does something the entire industry said was impossible. Then she combined it with llama.cpp and shipped the easiest way on the planet to run a large language model on any computer. Her name is Justine Tunney. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the low level systems world knows what one engineer has built. Justine was born in 1984. She started writing and publishing software at 14, back when distribution meant uploading binaries to BBS systems and chat networks. She picked up the handle jart, which she still uses on GitHub today. She did the work most teenagers her age were not doing. She read the systems programming literature. She studied compilers. She fell in love with C. In July 2011 she registered the @occupywallst Twitter handle and the occupywallst dot org domain. Within weeks the protest movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York had become a global phenomenon, and her infrastructure was the digital backbone of the entire thing. She handled the social media, the website, the donations, the coordination. She built the platform that pushed the movement to reach millions. After Occupy she joined Google as a software engineer. She worked on TensorBoard, the visualization tool for TensorFlow, and on site reliability for Google infrastructure. She stayed for years. Then in 2018 she left Google Brain to work on a personal project. The project was called Cosmopolitan Libc. Cosmopolitan does something most C programmers would tell you is mathematically impossible. It lets you compile a C program once and have the resulting binary run natively on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD with no modification. One file. Six operating systems. No virtual machines. No interpreters. No recompilation. The technique she invented is called Actually Portable Executable. The implications are wild. Cosmopolitan binaries violate every assumption about how operating systems load programs. They are at once a Windows PE file, a Linux ELF binary, a macOS Mach-O binary, and a shell script. The same bytes run on every platform. For five years she worked on it mostly alone. She funded the development partly through Mozilla's MIECO program, which sponsored her work on Cosmopolitan 3.0, released on October 31, 2023. A month later she shipped llamafile. llamafile is what happens when you combine Cosmopolitan with llama.cpp. You take any LLM weights file in the standard GGUF format, you wrap it in Justine's binary, and you get a single file that runs on six operating systems without installation. No Python. No CUDA setup. No dependency hell. Just one file that you double click and it works. Mozilla launched it as an official project of their innovation group on November 29, 2023. It went viral immediately. The repository, hosted at github .com/mozilla-ai/llamafile, now has 24,600 stars. The license is Apache 2.0. Justine kept shipping. She added GPU support to Cosmopolitan, a task systems engineers thought would require rewriting the whole thing. She added dlopen support, another thing nobody else had figured out. She wrote whisperfile, a single file version of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model based on the same architecture. Her GitHub profile lists projects most engineers would consider impossible. sectorlisp, a Lisp interpreter that fits in a boot sector. blink, the tiniest x86-64-linux emulator on Earth. bestline, a teletypewriter command session library. redbean, a complete web server inside a single zip file. A teenager who shipped software in 1998 grew up to write the C library that the entire local AI movement now runs on top of. She did most of it alone, and most people scrolling AI Twitter cannot name her.

After DU rejected the appointment of the new St Stephens principal Susan Elias, Stephen's tell DU that it cant intervene in their decision, cites that minority institutions hold the right to appoint their own principal indianexpress.com/article/cities…

@CafeSSC Stephania Meetups 🗞️: Alumni meet at singapore today afternoon @StStephensClg

My latest #TharoorThink column in the @IndianExpress is an open letter to the GenZ supporters of the #CockroachJantaParty. They don’t have to accept that label or be defined by it. Here’s what they can do:

Stephania Moments 🗞️: Shared by Punam Batch Maths 1999 - “With Principal Prof Susan Elias as she gets commissioned to her new role today”. @CafeSSC @StStephensClg @UnionSSC

bravo Swapan-da & sharing this with @CafeSSC 🫡 🇮🇳

Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55

a month ago

Honoured to be sworn in as a Cabinet member in the West Bengal government.

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जब किसी के बेटे को सड़क पर खींचकर "देशद्रोही" बोला जा रहा था - तब आप थाली बजा रहे थे। जब किसी की बेटी प्रेस क्लब के बाहर अकेली खड़ी थी - तब आप WhatsApp पर forward कर रहे थे कि "मीडिया बिकाऊ है"। जब किसी ने सवाल पूछा - तो आपने कहा, "राजनीति मत करो।" जब किसी ने data माँगा - तो आपने कहा, "एजेंडा चला रहे हो।" जब किसी ने सड़क पर उतरे - तो आपने कहा, "टुकड़े टुकड़े गैंग।" आज, आपके बच्चे का NEET पेपर लीक हो गया। आपके बच्चे का CBSE result गड़बड़ा गया। आपके बच्चे का भविष्य किसी की जेब में है। और अब आप पूछ रहे हैं - "सरकार जवाब दे।" लोकतंत्र WhatsApp स्टेटस नहीं है कि जरूरत पड़ी तो लगा लिया। याद रखिए चुप्पी भी एक राजनीतिक कर्म है, और उसकी कीमत कभी न कभी घर तक आती है। लोकतंत्र उन्हीं की रक्षा करता है, जो उसकी रक्षा करते हैं। #NEETScam #PaperLeak #CBSE

2. Kapil Sibal, a saviour for many who are persecuted by those misusing and abusing power. In sheer desperation, I approached India's foremost legal luminary, @KapilSibal, an old friend from Delhi University days. Kapil was senior to me by three years. He was at St Stephen's while I was at Miranda House. Within hours, Kapil arranged a senior lawyer from the Chandigarh High Court, Sh. Sartej Singh Narula. What is more, Kapil Sibal is arguing the case for me in the High Court, pro bono, as he does for countless persons who are being persecuted by the powers-that-be. This is not the first time Kapil has come to my rescue. Even when I was facing murderous attacks from extortionist goons and the local police, on account of my work for street vendors, Kapil stood up for me in more ways than one. Kapil again appeared for me pro bono when a malicious defamation case was filed against me by the owner-editor of a separatist newspaper in Kashmir. I can cite many more examples of Kapil Sibal's compassion and generosity. I feel blessed to have a friend like him in today's India.

@CafeSSC @StStephensClg

Aditya Arya (History '80 @StStephensClg), founder of Gurgaon's iconic Museo Camera, signs a bilateral agreement for @MuseoCamera with the Russian State Art Gallery in Moscow, under BRICS+ cultural cooperation. @Russia

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